As you know The thing that really makes a horror work is good lighting and good sound. I thought your lighting was pretty well done and like you said your ADR needs work but the rest of the sound was good.

The only other thing i would say is when you cut back to the girl it's always the same shot, i felt the need for a wide shot or two to show her there all alone but thats no big deal.

if anyone posts a horror i usually take the time to watch it cause its one of the hardest genres to pull off well.

You did a good job well done.

Andy.

The lighting scheme and music were very effective but there was something missing in the build up of tension. I can't put my finger on it. It wasn't scary or tense enough. In the context of the movie it probably works but as an isolated scene it's lacking a narrative pull. Good work though. Nicely made. I look forward to seeing the full movie.

On a related matter I have just posted my short Gialloesque (see posts below) on Youtube so please check it out and let me know what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mljloKf0cL0

Loved yours
 

Great composition in yours and lighting. I can see what your saying. I hope it is the narrative. I changed the scene recently. I composited the foot prints to appear as he is looking at them. That sort of thing.

Haha! that kite tube is awesome!

Help me choose...
 

Hi,

I'm entering a kind of contest, where they select you on ground if you are a promising filmmaker. You can submit a short (max about 5 minutes) or a trailer. And if I don't have enough time to make a new short, I'm planning to send one of these, but I can't choose! So, I'm looking for opinions.


First one is this, I already posted it in the past, this is the link to the earlier thread with link, it's a finished short:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthrea...hlight=tunnels


The second one is a loose scene out of a bigger script I wrote. Again, the voice over is Dutch, but it's a pretty short scene in which a character explains how his father once was a professor of an academy, wanted to make clones and got banned by his fellow-professors because of those ideas, but went one making them any way, and taking over a city with them.
This is the link:

http://www.16plus.be/node/1268

Can someone help me pick!
Any feedback will be apreciated, thanks in advance!

I think its going to be hard to say due to the fact it is in a different language. Slow scences without knowing what is going on is easier to dismiss than fast cuts.
I thought the quality of the second one was better (the desk with the illustrations on it was so clear), but the quality could be in how you uploaded and rendered them. I liked the cuts and angles of the second one better, the style and how they blended with the imagry and music.
The first movie seemed to linger to long and the cuts seemed to noticable but that could have been to build tension I could not get without the dialog. The clown seemed to be a metaphor for the man running but I don't know.

Without dialog I would say the second one.

Good ending. Thanks to your music playing during the credits, you could visualize the final confrontation as they walk towards each other, glockin' their guns ready for some bad ass fuggy fuggy.

They team up instead right, for the big fat kill.

If your wondering why people are watching this before they know anything about it, then it could be due to two words in your title, Cat Fight. Guys like seeing women glitchin' out against each other.

Looking forward to the second part Sean. Should be fun to shoot and a whole lot more ambitious. Nice guns by the way.

Thanks for the feedback. I know about using copyrighted music, but the site it's posted one, it's allowed because they had it arranged with the goverment here, and for the contest you can send something with unlicensed copyrighted music, but then you have the disadvantage that they can't put it on their website to get feedbacks. Not that they NEED that for their decision, but they CAN look to it for opinions. (yeah it's a 12 page submitting paper with all the rules :-p)

I was MAYBE thinking about dubbing the second film, the black and white scene, because the only language that is spoken is 'f*ck you', so I could dub the voice over (if I have the original editing project somewhere, which I actually doubt). The contest said there couldn't be 'excessive language and violence' in the movies, so I don't know what they exactly mean with excessive.

BTW: Liam, 13 Angels... is indeed one of the best songs of Silver Mt Zion EVER, you just can't stop listening to it!

Best regards,

Yea great song. I remixed it into a collage of sound to make a new track when I was going through my avant garde faze in 2001/2. I'm back on the mentalist beat abuse now.

I was going to offer you if you wanted some free sound design for your film Tunnels when I first posted but then thought I just don't have time since there are so many contests for people like us right now, which is a blessing to make us do something, otherwise I just talk the talk and never get anything done apart from sitting in a room learning software, that's pretty much been my life these past few years in respect to film-making. So staying up all night till 6 am to shoot in a tunnel is exactly what I'm talking about and it's great to see your enthusiasm.

There is a haunting and long, very long tunnel that I have been meaning to shoot in since the summer. It's located here in London close to where Chris Cunningham shot his music video Come To Daddy for Aphex Twin. I can't remember where though but the address and picture is in the magazine Time Out. Lying around here somewhere.

One last Tunnel related snip, Orbital have a great song called Tunnel Vision which I'd love to use for film so I bagsey that too. Avanto.

Hi Liam,

how did you know we stayed up so late for shooting in the tunnel?
IT was actualy 5h30 am, and not 6h am, when we wrapped, but still ;-)

Or was it just an assumption?
If it was: right on.
We needed the tunnel to be empty, so shooting at night was our best option when you have no budget. We shot between 21hpm and 5h30 am.

Best regards,

does anyone have more fun makin' movies than mr. digital revolution himself, sean mchenry?? i think not.

just think, if it had been accepted at sundance, only a coupla hundred folks might have seen it, but thanks to the web, you have a fan base of thousands, dare we say tens of thousands?? congrats, sean. that's pretty cool.

Well I could just say that I translated your written info from the videos webpage into english nadsat or I could tell you the truth, in that - all I see is matrix code, streaming down my laptop screen like one billion bullets raining in all it's gorgeous chaos, flowing in spasms of wild glitch, and watching the splattering morphine voids of colour shine before metamorphosing into new streams of razor-hardwired zeros and ones, violently mutating against each other like viral blood blisters on fire, burning through every firewall and into my very mind. Ping!

Ok I lied again.

I see pandas.

Wow, avant hardy. You got apples, or should I say Anthony has for directing this cat tough tongue subject matter. I see he's directed numerous plays as well, that sounds cool. Looks like a clean shaven production, interesting effects, well done to all those involved and God's peace to all the women's state of mind.

Rain on Me
 

Hey all,

Just wrapped up the latest music video shoot. We ran into a lot of problems but in the end, we got the product done.

www.greenbench.tv/videos/Rain.wmv

I'm a little torn over this video, because I love the color correction and the rain but I'm a little mad over the repetitiveness of the video. We had a bunch of storyline scenes lined up, including a church scene, but people kept backing out at the last minute, so the artist and myself decided we would just work with what we have and save for the next video.

Plus, this was done with a $100 budget, so I guess it's okay for that amount of money!

Anyways, we used the DVX100b, a black backdrop, a bunch of tota and pro lights from Lowel.

Feedback is appreciated!

Liam, did you delete one of your posts?

Well John, you're right, its a pretty simple video and one starts to notice the same "scenes" after awhile, but you've explained why that is. Putting that aside, I think it looks great. The shots look really nice, and the rain shot looks great too. Solid cinematography, can't wait to see what you do with a bigger budget, more actors etc. Nice work!

New, smaller version
 

I have a new link, 9.3MB instead of 46+MB.

http://www.advancedmedialab.com/poc/InTheSky2.html

Let me know what you think.

Not bad. I like the forest area. That was cool. Was it just natural fog? Or did you do something to make that appearance?

What did you use for the CG making?

Sorry I missed it, when you first posted it!
~Gabriel~

Gabriel,

The fog was natural.

The CG program was Ray Dream Studio. It's about 10 years old and no longer in production. It's not bad for an old program and it will definitely do in a lot of circumstances.

I would like to switch to a newer program but the learning curve is so steep.

The composite program was Vegas.

On commenting on another horror short, I realised that I got no comments on this forum about my 2 min horror above posted months back. I'm writing a 10 min ghost story at the moment to shoot in November. So I would like any advice I can get, to improve on what I have done previously. Thanks.

Pretty good. Nice effects, but it wasn't all that scary. The ending was awesome though! I know that it's very tough to pull something like that off in 2 minutes.

Well thought out and shot. The effects were done very well! I'll have to learn how to work on my effects.

Mike

The cloud transition back to the evil dude was cool.
I found it more comedy than horror though.

Asian Short film
 

come check out our cheesy short film we shot as a class project
www.myspace.com/abelvang

Thanks for your comments. Yes, difficult to make something scary in 2 minutes. A 5 min film could more manage building suspense and shock better. So instead I did try and inject some humour. I do find the headless woman walking backwards quite funny. I'm getting into practice. I'm aiming next year to make a short film which hopefully will be scary and not an unintentional comedy as is the danger if not careful.

The smoke effects was created in Lightwave 3D and the compositing was done in Fusion, including the shadow travelling up the staircase.

HVX200 footage
 

Varied HD clips taken around Fort Lauderdale, Florida... shot with a Panasonic HVX200 in 720p/24p. All of these clips were shot tethered to an iBook 1.2GHz with an internal 4200rpm HD.

QuickTime Movie Torrent 352.4 MB (3 mins and 4 seconds):
http://home.comcast.net/~andraelp/10...-2.mov.torrent
Right click to download the above torrent file.

Frame grabs are attached also.

I really want to see this but 1seed 15 hours to go ........

I'm on comcast Cable which limits my upload to around 46KBps. I would appreciate everyone to seed the file to a 1:1 ratio. Currently 3 peers are in the swarm. One at 60%, another at 35% and the last person to join at 11%. So download rates should be faster now. The guy at the bottom of the swarm is receiving chunks of it at 50Kbps average from everyone else in the swarm. The good news is that anyone that jumps in now gets it faster.

I am looking into setting up a more organized initial seeding method amongst my partners/friends... a seeding society for HD content.

Horror Mini Movie (19 min) - Shot XL1s
 

"In the Loaming"

This ia a short that was made several years ago. I thought it came out ok considering it was a no budget production. I spent about $800 - not counting gear. It was a great experience.

I have published it for the first time publicly if you are interested. It is hosted on YouTube and embedded in my homepage:

www.CodemanStudios.com

I hope you like this spooky little story.

Is there a way to access the file without getting a FileFactory account?

I'd like to see how that cam does at a wedding.

Thanks.

-Don

new AFM 2006 trailer
 

http://www.horrorsofwarmovie.com/images/poster4.jpg


the NEW AFM 2006 trailer. CLICK HERE

2 min - @ YOU TUBE

Wedding Video Montage, Need opinions
 

Hey guys, i've just shot a wedding video for a friend of mine who had a wonderful wedding the other day. She couldn'd find any wedding videographer that was cheap enough so she asked if i could shoot it for her, which i thought would be the hardest and most nerv racking thing i'd do but being a good i said yes, not know what I was in for. well any way i'd just edited a short montage of a photo shoot on the beach the bride and groom did with the photgrapher, i'd love if you guys or girls(lol) could give me some advice or any criticism about the video.

I shot with a Sony Z1, i didnt use any mini35 adapters or extra lighting or reflectors. I just shot handheld with the Z1 and I just shot them naturally with out asking them to pose or act out partiular parts. I followed them wherever they went, and tried my best not to be obtrusive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVvpaeQrRm4
This is the link to the video. It goes for a about 4 mins it would be great if any of you could take the time to watch and critic it.
Thanks

Thats Incredible!!! nice work. Cant wait to see the full thing

Thanks for the comments. I would appreciate any feedback.

Excellent Work.
 

All in all, good work.

Remember sequences.

Other than that. Good work. It should get you clients if you want it.
Nothing ever comes out bad from Magic Bullet.

Mark,

I generally reframe from leaving feedback, because you end up in an argument with a defensive filmmaker, and being one myself I understand the difficulty of receiving feedback, especially adverse comments. However, I would like to give you feedback, I am just having problems finding and downloading the file.

Thanks for the reply Brian.

Although much poorer quality here's a more accessible link to the ever popular Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mljloKf0cL0

I watched your 20 min film and thought it was okay. The child actors were good and actually better than the adult actors. I thought the actress who played the grown woman was the wrong choice. The story centred on her, yet the film could not quite work because her wooden performance was not believable, so I couldn't get fully aborbed into the film. I thought the actor who played the old guy getting her sign the papers looked the part and was menacing.

Apart from that I liked your idea and it reminded me of a short Stephen King type story and the grusome effects at the end looked good.

Short Film Edited and visual FX with Premiere
 

This is a short film I Shot, Directed, Color corrected, Co-Wrote, Scored, Foleyed, and much more.... It was done for the price of the camera and the computer to edit it with Premiere. The film was shot in 2004, it was never meant to actually be a longer short film with all that it has now.... I just wanted to do a 2-5 min. short that would be fun to shoot. Instead It turned into a long writing process and then a 3 week shoot, with everyone working completely for free. THIS IS NOT A STUDENT FILM.... This was just for me to do the people in the film are not of college age, they are actually professionals mostly 28 years old and up.
The film is not up to my standards of the films I make now, this film fell apart and I ran into tons of problems along the way... but in the end i look back on it, and it was fun to make after all the hell. So i hope you enjoy, it was just for fun but maybe it will show you guys the power of Premiere when at its most budgeted.

The film is in 4 parts due to size so please make your way from the top to the bottom from parts 1 to 4

PART 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHIOKWlZjAs


PART 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFFskAfwr1o


PART 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJb0pTabyzQ


PART 4:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NSIbzMUgm4



I hope you like, this film would have never been made if it wasnt for Premiere, it was an amazing program to work with, and i still use it over my avid system!

Very good! I hated the music during key moments since I recognized it from other more famous "works" and it pulled me out of the movie. I mean... using the LOTR's soundtrack was too much.

The movie was very good though... well done.

Great story.

Mike

haha yeah sorry about that, we never planned to do such a long film, so getting scores killed me... I worked with what I had, again I for the most part hate this film now but I figured it would be fun to see others reactions since I only showed it once.

Im now working on some serious HD films, once they are finnished be sure to see some actual work from me :)

Thanks for the input !